Benedick and beatrices relatio
Benedick and beatrices relatioSometimes, when a man and a woman are interested in each other, they pretend to feel
exactly the opposite. They hide their feelings of love inside and act like they absolutely
hate each other. Being too proud to concede their love, they leave themselves vulnerable
to rejection by the other one, and they continue the farce. This situation is often
associated with relationships that take place during the adolescent stages of people’s
lives, but in Much Ado About Nothing these types of goings on take place between a
mature man and woman. These characters are Benedick and Beatrice. Every time they
met, battles of wit and words begin. Not one kind word was uttered between the two.
Their love was never to be realized though, until they both fell victim to underhanded
plots devised by their friends. Their odd road to romance was an aspect of the play that
was very pertinent to the plot and indeed something that would keep the reader’s
attention.
The notion that Beatrice was not fond of Benedick was conveyed very early in the
first act. As news of the arrival of Benedick and company to Messina was announced,
Beatrice immediately started to poke fun at him. She inquired as to who he had become
friendly with and then began to say she knew Benedick to be fickle and have a new
sworn friend every time that she sees him. This was the first clue to her distaste and also
lets one see that she had some sort of interaction with Benedick in the past that left her
feeling this way toward him. Soon after this scene, Benedick arrives and almost
instantaneously they began to quarrel with each other. They kept on bickering and
arguing, never letting the other get the last word in and never giving up any ground in
their battle. For each, their cunning wit was the weapon of choice. Judging by the way
that they seemed to have been acting, one would guess that there was a genuine hatred
between the two, but the way that they carried on makes one must think that there was
something more at hand. It might have clued the reader in to a suppressed sense of
competition between the two which could have been brought about by a sense of
insecurity that each of them possessed. They seemed to always need the approval of their
friends and could never possibly have given in to one another. This is evident because
their quarrels were always in public and neither of them ever wanted to lose those battles.
They never seemed to lose the anger that they possessed and always tried to get in the last
word, never conceding to the other at all. They always had be the victor in front of their
companions.
One night while at a masked ball under...
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